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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Great Lakes Computer Partners with Aruba Networks

Great Lakes Computer has become a PartnerEdge authorized
partner with Aruba Networks, a leading provider of next-generation network
access solutions for the mobile enterprise.
Founded in 2002, Aruba designs and delivers Mobility-Defined Networks
that empower IT departments and #GenMobile, a new generation of tech-savvy
users that rely on mobile devices for every aspect of work and personal
communication. To create a mobility experience that #GenMobile and IT can rely on, Aruba
Mobility-Defined Networks automate infrastructure-wide performance optimization
and trigger security actions that used to require manual IT intervention. The
results are dramatically improved productivity and lower operational costs.
Aruba is the industry leader in 802.11ac access points and focuses on building
secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage wireless networks.

Recently Juniper Networks and Aruba Networks announced their
strategic partnership to deliver converged wireless and wired networking
solutions based on each company’s best-of-breed technologies. This partnership
includes joint development efforts and collaboration to focus on items such as
delivering comprehensive solutions and more value to customers and enabling technology
partners to take advantage of Juniper’s open APIs. Together, Juniper and Aruba
address mobility market trends with product-level integration that leverages
open protocols and open APIs on Juniper routers and switches, and contextual
data on users, devices, applications and location available from Aruba’s
enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) products. With this new integration, enterprises
will now be able to optimize application performance, enable mobility-centric
security and policy, and reduce total cost of ownership by eliminating vendor
lock-in.

Already a partner with Juniper Networks for many years,
Great Lakes Computer has chosen to align with Juniper in their positioning with
Aruba Networks. This partnership will allow GLC to provide the knowledge,
products, and expertise of Aruba Networks, as well as the new developments that
their partnership with Juniper Networks brings. Great Lakes Computer already
provides wireless site surveys to help improve existing wireless deployments as
well as identify access point placement and coverage for new wireless
deployments. These surveys help identify issues such as gaps in coverage,
insufficient data throughput, service interruptions, and a growing number of
devices.

Great Lakes Computer will carry the complete Aruba Networks
wireless portfolio including access points, controllers, and software, as well
as provide professional services to support hardware sales.